Our campaigning.
Advocating safer, better streets means tackling lots of issues, large and small. We raise awareness of the challenges residents of North Tyneside face in going about their daily lives.
Whether it’s identifying and campaigning for pedestrian safety improvements to road junctions, crossing points, cycle infrastructure or traffic-free school streets, we engage with the local authority and stakeholders, and we help residents and businesses to make cases for change.
We also organise the North Tyneside Kidical Mass rides twice a year, promote a monthly social cycle at the coast and try to bring people together in as many ways as we can.
Some of our campaign activity
- Advocating for living streets across the borough
- Promoting walking, cycling and wheeling to support a range of social, environmental, health and wellbeing benefits
- Making the case for traffic-free “school streets” to make walking and cycling to and from school safer
- Advocating for the creation of low traffic neighbourhoods, reducing through traffic and making residential streets safer for all
- Supporting more play streets across the borough to give more children the chance to play safely on their streets
- Working with local businesses to explore the benefits of living streets for footfall and income
- Engaging with North Tyneside Council to create safe spaces for walking, cycling and wheeling
- Working with other groups to ensure that the voices of older people, disabled people, and those from diverse communities within the borough are clearly heard
- Exploring ways that living streets can support social and economic recovery from the covid-19 pandemic.
More from our blog
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Bus Stop Bypasses – Our Views
North Tyneside Council has launched a review of all bus stop bypasses, “a design which helps reduce conflict where cycle routes interact with public transport bus stops”, following concerns raised …
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North Tyneside Council abandons Preston Road cycle path
North Tyneside Council has abandoned its plan for a safe cycle route linking North Shields town centre with John Spence High School and the A1058 Beach Road cycle route. The …
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Kidical Mass: Why we ride in North Tyneside
On September 22nd, we’ll be leading our sixth North Tyneside kidical mass ride – each time, we’ve seen hundreds of riders, of all ages and abilities, and on all sorts …
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Kidical Mass – Sunday 22nd September 2024
Our next North Tyneside #KidicalMass ride will take place at 2pm on Sunday 22nd September. On this World Car Free Day, we will be joining with campaigners nationwide, both individuals …
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Family friendly summer cycle events on the North Tyneside Coast
Join us throughout the summer for a programme of family friendly, social bike rides and repair workshop events, supported by CyclingUK’s Big Bike Revival.
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Kidical Mass – Saturday 20th April – #SafeStreetsNow
Important Update **** Back to Plan A for North Tyneside #KidicalMass **** ****Back to Plan A!**** With huge thanks to various North Tyneside Council staff at all levels, we are …